Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-08
In tho Choice of the Party.

DEMOCRAT.
In tho Choice Of the Party.
To the Editor Of the Register:
The election of United States Senator
by the Legislature of our State has become
the talk of everybody who takes any inter
est in politics. Why is such interest
taken? The election of a United States
Senator is for "a long period of time. lie
becomes q member of that branch OF our
| National legislature, wherein all the States
| have equal representation and consequent
" an equal voice in the passage OF every
law for the government of the nation and 4
voice in the confirmation of all appoint,
ments made by the President Of the United
| States. They are the balance power, Gre
ated in the ~incipiency of our government,
to check unjust legislation originating Ill
the House Of Representatives and
appointments of the same char
acter made by the President,
They are supposed to be men of mature
Judgment, ready to do justice between
man and man. The Republican party are
talking about this matter because they feel
there is some show for them to secure this
official in this State. They see Il DEMO
cratic members in deadly conflict. They
behold spite work, vindictiveness and
hatred depicted in their faces. They he
lieye the breach is widening and the vortex
| of separation growing deeper and deeper
aud ultimately they believe they will gain
this election. They feel clated over their
prospects and laugh in their sleeves ut the
fOOliShcS of our representatives who stand
alooi from the majority. At the same
time they encourage them to he steadiaSt
and answering in maintaining this posi-
ton. The Democratic party are talking
about this matter and feel Illuminated to
think such 4 state of affairs exist, and that
il is all caused by Democrats advocating
the same principles and devoted 10 the
same cause, and who believe that Demo-
Gratis should rule this broad land from the
Atlantic to the Pacific ocean and from
Canada To the Gulf of Mexico, haye 50 far
forgot themselves TO give the Republican
party the least shadow of Il chance to elect
this important officer in a State purely
Democratic and with u Democratic MAORI
ty i'm both branches of her Legislature.
Just think for a moment, YOU were each
man elected to the high position you hold
by Democratic votes and from counties and
districts having Democratic maj0rltleS
You were elected to carry out the will OF
your constituency, you were elected to leg
islate for the people of the State, not Tor
yourselves; YOU were elected TO do justice
to the party you represent. Are you doing
these things? Are you not aware more
than th~ree-fuurths of the Democracy and
two-thirds of the Republicans of the State,
laying aside prejudice, are IN favor oil the
election of Mr.. Camden in preference to
any other man, and if policy did not step
in, would ask their representatives to
/ vote for him. Now what Is the duty OF
n representative under such circumstances
on this question or any Others 1t not to
lay aside his own personal motives and de-
sircs and vote for the wishes Of his cOnStit-
uency? No man is true and worthy Rep
reSentative who will not do this. lie
should remember he is the servant of the
people and holds his position by reason OF
their suffrage and should on every Occrsion
vote as n majority thereof desire when he
can ascertain their wishes, and he should
do this if he knows it will he against their
best interest, you clear your conscience and
TO your duty and if the vote is wrong no
one is to blame but your constituency.
Again. we ask why is the election
of j. y. Camden United States Senator
combatted and fought by n . small
band of our Democratic members OF the
| Legislature? Is he not capable, has he
committed some terrible mistake that
humiliates him in the estimation of those
| who stand out against him? VIII You
gain anything for the State, or the people
of the county, if you elect any man who
has been proposed by you over Mr.. Cam
len, | fail to find out or learn 4 single
thing-The strong points urged against
him even by his most bitter enemy, Re-
publican or Democrat, is that he Is 4 mo-
nopolist and millionaire, and belongs to
the Standard Oil Company, and owns lots
of railroad stock, we challenge any nan
to place his finger on any vote or action OF
Mr.. Canden's whilst in the United
| States Senate that is against the
desires and wishes of the people of his
State and that had in its bearings the adj
vancement of his own personal interests
p~ecuniarily. His vote has always been
| east in the welfare of the masses with
out regard TO his W individual interests
ar those of II corporation he might be
| Interested in. Are the Legislators of our
State acting in the same spirit Of mag
nanimity toward their constituents? We
fear not. Again such fights rs this amongst
Democrats gets up ieuds and discussions in
the State and there is danger of weakening
our majority. Men are hard to reconcile
sometimes, and in the heat of political
contests take vengeance upon the whole
marty tn get even with some individual.
That the II Democrats who vote outside OF
the Camden men for other Democrats, who,
lust aS intelligent, Just rs good, inst rs re-
sponSible, Just rs worthy, and who would
make perhaps rs good a representative Is
not denied or questioned. That Mr.. Cam,
den is not their choice and may not he the
choice of their immediate districts, and
that they have a perfect right to enter
their votes against him and protest against
his election is not questioned, but when
they are convinced, rs our present Leglsla'
ture seems TO be, that an overwhelming
majority OF their constituency III the State
are in favor of his election, then true man,
hood, justice to the party, justice between
man and man, justice to the State
and Justice to the Democracy of the whole
COUNTRY demands their votes for the
majority candidate This vote is not fol
the majority candidate, nor for the mar
casting it nor is it for the district that
elects him, he should take n wider, bread
er and more conservative view of all the
surroundings and east his vote for the
wishes of the people he represents which
is the people of the whole State. | was
no Camden man in the beginning OF this
contest. | felt ne was no brilliant states
man, l felt that he represents some inter
ests that ] do not believe in, but since the
inst ballot of our Legislature, feel he !:
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